>> announcer: due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> just weeks away from completing his sentence, an inmate is accused of murdering his cellie. >> holy cow.

>> if you asked me a year ago, i would have said we had a pretty good track record. >> a large woman with a personality to match loses everything to meth. >> i was high and too scared to call 9-1-1. >> a disturbance in the jail's transfer bus. >> now, he vows to cause more problems. >> that just might be a habit. they want to play games, i can play games. >> it's been very successful. it's been invaluable to us. >> do you want to sit here and look like this when you get in

trouble, for real, for real? do you want to wake up to this? come on. >> the birthplace of the california gold rush. >> about ten years ago, we were called frequently the meth capital of the country. it really caused us and the federal government to really attack that issue. it has not been the crisis that it has been. i will say, in the last year or two, ms. speakereth is making a resurgence. >> many have struggled with

methamphetamine addictions. >> i'm here for failure to enroll in a drug program. they put a warrant out for my arrest. >> btsdss her height, there's one other thing that makes her stand out from the crowd. >> she does a funny trick with her eyes. >> you want to see here and look at this when you get in trouble. you want to wake up to this? come on. >> thank you.

>> i've known her for probably about four years. i've seen her on and off. she has the heart to where she wants to help people. it's not something that we see a lot. i love my job. it takes my mind off of being in jail. >> mate workers are not paid, but they do get extra meals.

>> samoans eat a lot more than other disciplines in life. growing up, we made enough to share with everybody. >> on average, breakfast, 5, 6 trays. dinner, probably the same amount. >> she could go over 20 trays. >> and she's a newbie. so she's slowly learning how to take them down. food was my first addiction. i didn't start doing a lot of drugs until 28. >> drugs have been all the root of all troubles. she has served two prior prison terms. she is currently serving time for position of met meth amphetamine. in addition, admits to having worked as a debt collector for drug dealers and e and

transporting stolen kaurs. >> i had to pick them up and take them to where they needed to be. and i got a lot of money. >> first time i used meth, it was fun, it was cool, it was a party drug. i went in full force, head first, swan dived in a tub of meth. and, literally, i'll smoke it so much that i'll be loading it through the hole of the bowl while i'm still smoking. and as soon as i take it out of my mouth, it's just this [expletive] -- i don't know what it is. it's the only way i can explain it from when the hulk goes from human to beast. >> normally, on the street, i do eat a lot. but when i'm on drugs, it's back

to this meth monster. when was the last time i was under 200 pounds? five, like five years olt. >> the greatest toll meth has taken is on her family. five live with her siblings and one with an uncle. >> our family is pretty close knit. my siblings are glued to my life. my family means the world to me. but we've been separated for such a long time.

it's been 11 years. i just pushed them away. i would never disrespect them like that. >> meth, jail, all of this right now wouldn't everyone be in play in my life. i know that for a fact. i know that for a fact. >> coming up. >> i was pretty shocked. i never seen anything like that. >> i hit the guy back. >> an inmate strikes his cellie and now faces a murder charge.

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doin town sack ramentsacramf the county walls to the jail facility. he says he's hoping to save the marriage. >> she had better things to do than mess around with an alcoholic. i was out here running wild. but i think california, living the dream. >> he says his life descended into a life of drinking and drugs. >> i didn't care about anything or anybody.

if i wanted it, i took it. >> shortly before his arrest, he broke his wrist and then reinjured it when he fell out of a tree. he also keeps breaking his right foot. >> i jumped off of a balcony. six months later, i dropped a manhole cover on it. a couple months later, i was working and i stepped on something and broke it. he was able to bond out and was sentenced to serve one year in jail.

>> i stayed in here on restriction. trying to go with cigarettes in here. >> but then salmons got in the kind of trouble that goes far beyond. he admits getting upset with his 58-year-old cellie. hours later, he was charged with murder. he has plaed not guilty. >> he fell back and hit his head. local press reports say his cell mates were known by friends and family to have mental health issues and was frequently homeless.

he was in jail for failing to serveg as a sex offender. . the kind of charges that often make inmates targets for violence. >> i didn't know any of that. >> after about a week together rgs his cellie was getting on his nerves. >> i was losing my mind. >> i begged him. the deputies wouldn't do nothing. >> jail officials would not comment. >> he said but for a number of different reasons, we cannot. it almost seems to give creditability to what's being said when, in reality, it's easy

to discount what's being said. >>. >> sat on my bed and was leaking out of his pants. i didn't really lose my temper. he fell back and hit the concrete floor. he bled prosecutety good. he had to change his clothes. he had to change his shirt because he had blood on them. >> several hours rater, his cell mate was lying on the floor, that he often slept on the floor. >> i woked up and kicked the seat and he didn't move.

>> he pressed the emergency call button, but it took some deputies more than four minutes to respond. >> this case was certainly no exception. you have to start with the premise that none of us want to get killed. none of us got into this job because we wanted to save looichs. just because they're inmates does not mean we depart from that drive. >> so you're in here but you're in here for a murder charge.

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>>. >> it's time to start doing what i should have been doing years ago. >> i haven't been in this jail since 90 something. >> he has served time in jail several times over the past 25 years on multiple akoints of forgery, identity theft and drug po session. . >> the more experienced inmates take on jobs. the inmate, while there's also a lot of work for the jail itsz, including fabricating and installing the steel cages.

just like a different holding tank, just smaller and mobile. >> still, the 40 minute drive can be eventful. >> the most daunting struggle is if there's two deputies assigned and we have a capacity of 51 inmates.

>> at the kroenter of attention today. serving one year for possession of a controlled substance, protective custody because he dropped out of his gang. most of those guys are either gang dropouts, they've been convicted of sex assaults on children. so the other inmates see them as people they want to sell. i just dropped out so i can do my time and that's it.

>> all these people? not really. >> he was caught trying to smuggle an electric shaver on the bus. >> it's not okay for them to have them on their person. >> i was getting ready to get on the bus. >> i put it in there. >> he admitted to me that he had thrown the shavers. i apologized and said let's just get through this. >> my first thought was that he's trying to get away. this is a very bad situation.

so when i come around the corner, i see the inmate with the shaver in his hand. whatever process went on in his head, i told him it was a good idea. he turned it over and we had a conversation of why that wasn't a good idea. >> we'll see.

man, if i go back, i'm just going to be a havoc to these [expletive]. >> coming up,. >> >> he just wants to come out of the closet. that's all his problem is. earnest makes front-page news. the second killing rocks the jail.

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inside the downtown main branch, earnest is housed in the total separation, or tsac unit, but he hasn't lost his sense of humor. >> total separation is exactly what it says. it's total separation. you're by yourself. you move by yourself, you're transported by yourself, you have no contact with any other inmate except for maybe talking through a door. >> selmans and other tsac inmates are only allowed out of their cells 30 minutes a day.

he started out as an average cell mate. he can nots have another cell mate. >> he says he struck his 54-year-old cell mate after he soiled himself. but he says he has no idea how the man died a short time later. at the time, nearing the end of a one-year sentence for vehicle theft. >> 23rd is the prelim. that's where we've goot to start picking our jurors and stuff out. if found guilty, he could get life without parole. >> there's robin and mo going to see how i'm doipg again. >> salmons talks to many

siblings in ohio. one month after salmons cell mate died, prior to these suspected homicides, there had only been two murders in the jail's history and the last was five years earlier. >> you've got a bunch of criminals in there, so you would think that would happen. it really doesn't. if you would have asked me a year ago, i would have said we have a pretty good track record. we have serious criminals in

that jail. >> a recent law that houses convicted felons who, in the past, would have gone to prison. and a dramatic increase in the mentally ill population. perhaps we didn't ask for the problem, but it is our issue. it's not only incumbent upon us, its's our situation to figure out how best to address it, minimize it and how best to reverse what is hopefully, not a trend. >> front page news. holy cow. it looks like a real profit, huh? squl and now, a local newspaper is running from page article in the recent deaths. >> that sucks, man.

that's pretty painful. that's not how i wanted to be in the paper. the story is i killed a guy and they're trying to say i'm a murderer for it. i don't know. it's hard to live it once. i had a lot of issues, you know. it's a strange way of how things happen. i just may have to suffer for it. i'm not guilty necessary lid saying i murdered them, either. i can't because i know i put my hands on them. and i never put my hands on them enough to kill anybody. i thought being honest with the people would be the best policy.

but i guess you just have to know when to be honest. >> i didn't thinkives going to be charged with murder. >> listen to what we've got here. >> in another part of the jail, thanks to recreation supervisor. our job is to keep these guys active. hopefully, it saves a lot of paperwork. and i mean a lot of fights.

>> oh, 65, oh, 65 close. >> he goes above and beyond his call of duty. when it comes to making this not so locked up. >> here we go, i 18. >> that was a good one. i was pretty shocked. i never saw anything like that. i hope i don't have to see it again. >> it's very warming to see her to be excited.

i know that they're here for a reason. but i'm hoping for when they get out, that they would do getter. >> i have absolutely no relat n relationship with any of my children. i'm surprised you even remember what they are. i left my youngest at the hospital. i was high when my water broke. i was going to have the baby right there in the house.

he was born with cases of meth. as soon as i came to, i noticed i wasn't preg in and about anymore. i need you to come to the hospital and pick me the [expletive] up. >> well, where's the baby. i don't know. i need you to come pick me up. i didn't even let them know that i was leaving. she calls me to tell me look how pretty he is. he looks just like you. >> and he does.

>> recently missed an opportunity to avoid more jail time when she failed to appear at a court-ordered rehabilitation facility on her latest conviction of meth methamphetamine position. >> driek what it's like. >> monster. that's my nickname on the street. meth monster. terrible. >> my focus is meth, meth, meth. if you got it, i want it. if i ain't got the money for it, i'm taking it. for no other reason than just to get high and stay high. my family is a strong, strong family. and it's obvious because they're still all together.

this jail to me is safe. >> coming up, law enforcement officer. he announced his role. >> a stealthy cat, a 70 pound dumbbell. e state your name. carnie wilson. thank you. can you hold on? ♪ hold on for one more day really? hey, i know there's pain. why do you lock yourself up in these chains? ♪ this would be so easy if you had progressive. our mobile app would let you file a claim and help you find one of our service centers where we manage the entire repair process. things will go your way if you hold on. [ sighs ] someday somebody's gonna make you wanna turn around and say goodbye.

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located in thehearted of one of the nation's richest agricultural areas, it was once a world war ii army base. old barracks now house inmates.

and an airplane back serves as the supply warehouse. it's more than just deputies. >> my first interaction was on a cat. >> a few have been unofficially adopted in the warehouse. >> he is a 20 pound maine coon named leo. and he has reigned here for the last five years. >> he's the one that stops by and checks us out. the others just wonder around. i think he has his own territory. i was in here most of the time. but when we -- neither has been

paying attention. >> it's supersecret cat sbel. it's been invaluable to us. >> but leo's stealthy ways isn't necessary. he calls plenty of attention to himself. >> he has been confined to a total separation or tsep unit since trying to smuggle an electric razor on the bus to a jail downtown. and he's proven to be a man of his word. this is a letter for being

obedient and pounding on the door. i was just getting riders left and right. >> serving one year for possession of a controlled substance, he's caught the attention of other inmates. >> john gomez and justin are housed one floor below. both men say they are gay and suspect bogadea is, as well. >> we're in a situation where we

meet people in here and this is how we pass our time. we're having a bad day. somebody says one wrong thing, crack. it's a reverse psychology, that's all it is. >> it is a real disaster waiting to happen. >> he wants to kill me. he wants to stab me, as far as that goes, he does. >> he showed me a toothbrush, a white one.

and it was sharpened, he did show me. >> yeah, now i'm out of a toothbrush. as a matter of fact, i'm going to flush it so i don't get in any trouble. we weren't created for in. this building was created for us because we're criminals. we have to roll with it. if we can't do the time, don't do the crime. >> failing them twice would be committing suicide in my life. uh-uh. we don't even have a samoan.

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at the correctional center near sacramento, robert overton serving one year for possession of a firearm by a felon works hard to stay fit. he does push ups with his own jailhouse crafted blocks. >> he does his own push ups. i don't think any of these are the bibles. that would be -- what's the word? blasphemous? >> ovverton spends most of the day working in the jail's shop.

during breaks, it's another quick workout. >> this is my gym when i'm over here. it's not so obvious. i go back to doing work and nobody's the wiser. >> i'm 52, i figure i've got another good 50 in me. if i do, i'm trying to make this next 50 better than the last. be there for my kids and my grandchildren and just be a grandpa. >> with six children, 40-year-old patricia might become a grandparent herself some day. but her addiction to meth and the prison and jail stays have kept her away from both her children and her siblings.

i pushed them away. now i don't want to. we don't even have a samoan word for suicide. we don't believe in that. it's not our life to take. >> she's been in jail for failing to be in a drug rehabilitation program. she will soon be released on probation no more drugs. i'm done. i don't even know why i went this far.

>> nearing the end of a one-year sentence for autotheft. >> last year was up. we're not even into the trial days of this year. i would have been released last week. i can only hope and wish. i didn't murder that guy. waiting in court is the hardest part of it all. it does put some suicidal thoughts in your head. you want it over. i do. i can't stand it. i sit there and make all the

jokes i could make throughout the day. it just silts a little bit deeper every day. the last time i received anything, it was a picture of my youngest daughter. that meant more to me than anything that's left out in here. >> salmons is allowed out of his cell 30 minutes ada. he spends some of his time on an enclose enclos enclosed wreck yard. it messes with your kvts.

it messes with your self else team. it makes you feel like less of a person. i mean, i feel like a caged animal. >> isn't this crazy how it turned to freedom. >> looking at the train silting there, it makes me think i'm going home. that's where i was supposed to be when i first came in here, you know?

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